Comment by bbor

Well said, but I stand by the sentiment knowing that I'm communicating one of my moral values. I think it's a natural one, even if it's not unanimous! Kant says that our lives -- and by necessity those of all rational creatures -- are built on three lies (paralogisms): spacetime is bounded and continuous, I am a unified persistent person, and I am freely-motivated actor. These aren't empirical moral arguments, based in testing the best ways to organize society, but rather based in the very nature of what it means to play the role of "human being". Seriously and intentionally eroding one of those pillars is, I would say, an evil occurrence in-and-of itself.

Sure, the risks might be minimal and countless people will try, I have no doubt. Presumably you could use something like this to massively enhance your computational abilities/speed, given the right tech. But you run an unknowable risk of total and complete personal ruin, like a frog in boiling water that doesn't even know if it's died yet or not. Worth the risk? Maybe. But you're selling your soul to entropy, at the very least!